Dan DaranciangHere they are. The Cadenza staff. The sometimes witty, always sardonic contingent of college students who have devoted the majority of their college careers to wasting away in Student Life’s basement office, surviving on nothing but NutriGrain bars and indie rock albums. Between their record store addictions and love of romantic comedies, the Cadenza staff is nothing but a well-oiled writing machine, ready to take over not only this newspaper, but the Subway in Umrath, the basement of Olin Library, and arts sections everywhere.
Laura Vilines, our senior Cadenza editor, is a senior studying a lot of different things and pursuing a variety of majors and interests. Laura has spent her summer teaching children to dance and sing in Appalachia. She’s been spending her spare time watching high school Quiz Bowl competitions on television and eating large meals at the local Huddle House. She looks forward to a year filled with happiness, prosperity, and lots of non-Huddle House meals.
Few people know that Adam Summerville is a founding member of ABBA, but then, few people care about such things. Entering his senior year, he is a math/economics/computer science/(any other potentially dorky) major. He spent this last summer doing research on the applied mathematics of flight in Kansas, and he now believes that flight is possible. He still doesn’t believe in internal combustion engines or computers, though, but perhaps one day he will lose this extreme skepticism. As a math major, he has absolutely no skills for editing articles or critically analyzing movies, yet following a series of suspicious deaths he was named Cadenza’s movie editor.
Theater editor Robbie Gross was implicated in a leak involving the Teapot Dome Scandal in the mid-1920s. After completing several dozen Iditarods and bankrupting himself following three failed theatrical adaptations of the sled-race, he enrolled in Washington University to study the humanities and Spanish. His play about the 2004 Presidential Debate at Washington University won him significant praise, and a movie deal is currently in the works. He is currently a senior.
Music editor Jordan Deam is a senior English major and jazz studies minor. Earlier this summer, his car’s CD player broke down on a road trip from Minneapolis to Chicago. That left him the choice of dialing into Top 40 or Christian fundamentalist radio, both of which he believes to be vastly over-represented in the central Wisconsin radio landscape. As it turned out, he listened to one Jerry Falwell wannabe after the other for the next three hours…that’s how much he hates bad music.